EFFY Night Two: Birds and the People Who Love Them

​Join us for Night Two of EFFY 2026 with the films Love Birds and Between Moon Tides!

• ​Dinner (7-7:30 pm)

• ​Screenings (7:30-8:15 pm)

• ​Panel (8:15-9 pm), moderated by Lindi von Mutius

​Love Birds

​In 1972, married biologists George Hunt and Molly Warner made an unprecedented discovery while studying seagulls on one of California’s Channel Islands. To their surprise, a great number of the nesting pairs they observe are both female. George and Molly’s research on “lesiban seagulls” quickly triggers both outrage and jubilation in a nation grappling with the rise of the LGBTQ+ rights movement, and it threatens to tear apart their own relationship.

​Between Moon Tides

​In a ribbon of saltmarsh in coastal New England, an intergenerational group of citizen scientists is trying to save the Saltmarsh Sparrow from extinction, one nest at a time.